— Ben Shapiro argues that American civilians are different from Afghan civilians, because American civilians 'are people who go about their daily lives without providing cover for terrorists or giving them money'.

Well in that case Ben, are Israeli civilians 'people who go about their daily lives'? Because as far as I'm aware, each Israeli age 18 and up has to serve in the IDF. Your argument is invalid according to your own logic.

If we go by your own narrative, it's the Palestinians who should be considered harmless civilians, and not the Israelis.

But that's clearly not what we've seen you say in the past few days.

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🚨 One journalist has been killed and three others injured as a result of the Israeli army artillery

— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 AUDIO: A team of Al-Jazeera and Reuters journalists were hit by an Israeli artillery strike in South Lebanon

"What happened?! What happened?! What happened?! I can't feel my legs! F*ck, f*ck!"

The woman heard screaming died minutes after. These were her last moments alive.

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— So it's official, the first ground confrontation between Hezbollah and the IDF has taken place

Previous attacks were carried out using ATGMs, this one was done with small arms.

— One of the men died, the woman is still alive

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 WARNING: The Zionists have distributed a fake video, which claims to show a Hamas fighter admitting to rape and other atrocities

However, there are several things wrong with this video, which can easily be noticed by anyone who thinks critically.

1. When the IDF soldier takess off the blindfold of the captive, his eyes have no difficulty adjusting to the light, which should be present after a prolonged period of being blindfolded.

2. When the IDF soldiers gives the greeting "Salamu Alaykum" (peace be upon you), the alleged Hamas fighter then replies "Wa Alaykum Salam" (peace be upon you too). This makes no sense at all, because Muslims believe it is not permissable to say this greeting to non-Muslims, especially not to an IDF soldier. For an ideologically motivated Hamas fighter to do this is even more unlikely, as he undoubtedly sees the Israelis as enemies and disbelievers.

3. The IDF soldier then asks the alleged fighter if he wants to say the 'Fatiha', which is an Islamic prayer and chapter from the Quran, and he proceeds to say it. This is highly unusual and strange, because there are only two occasions when Muslims say this prayer; during the 5 daily prayers and when someone has died. Neither is obviously the case here, and it is merely an attempt to thicken the narrative that this alleged prisoner is indeed a Muslim.

4. The alleged fighter refers to Hamas as 'Hamas'. Although this might not initially seem strange, Hamas members do not actually use this term amongst themselves, rather they call themselves the 'Palestinian resistance', 'Islamic Resistance' or 'Al Qassam' (for the fighters).

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: The IDF is currently carrying out drone strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon - IDF

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Like I said, the snowball has started to roll, how long can this go on for?

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 JUST IN: Israel bombs a civilian convoy that was evacuating out of Gaza city, on the road they promised not to bomb

At least 70 killed and 200 injured.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Indicators show a further decline in Internet connectivity in the Gaza Strip amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes. Local media claim Israel's communications minister plans to cut off Internet services to Gaza at midnight

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ - PM Netanyahu about the Gaza offensive: “This is just the beginning. Our enemies have only just begun to pay the price, but I won't go into detail.”

🇮🇱⚡Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Netanyahu's speech: Netanyahu put all of Israel in a state of anxiety and did not say anything new.

— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 Israel's Defense Minister Gallant about the Hamas attack:

'Everything is directed from Iran. The permission is given by Iran, the money is supplied by Iran, and the ideas are shaped in Iran.'

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Are you clinically retarded Ben?

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— 🇦🇿/🇦🇲 NEW: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned lawmakers that Azerbaijan may invade Armenia within weeks - Politico

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— One war at a time please

It is tiring

— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇱🇧 Seventh day of the war, October 13th, status update and major events:

– Renlentless bombing campaign in Gaza continues; Israel drops leaflets asking residents of Gaza City to evacuate to areas in the south of the Gaza strip. Later on, Israel bombed a civilian convoy on a road that Israel promised not to target, resulting in at least 70 deaths.

– All areas around the Gaza strip have been cleared of Hamas fighters, based on the evidence that is currently available. No more successful infiltrations were reported.

– Iran's Foreign Minister met with the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.

– Massive protests in support of Palestine were held around the world, particularly in Muslim nations such as Iraq, Iran, Yemen and Jordan.

– The Israeli settlement of Metula near the Lebanese border was declared a closed military zone by the IDF.

– Sporadic small rocket barrages against Israeli cities. Hamas also launched one long range Ayyash 250 missile into the direction of Haifa, which hit a chemical production plant.

– Hezbollah announced that it targeted three Israeli settlements near the Lebanese border with armed fighters using small arms, and says it inflicted casualties upon the IDF.

– In a response to the Hezbollah attack, the IDF fired artillery at South Lebanon, destroying one Lebanese army observation tower. In response to this, the Lebanese army fired artillery back at Israel.

– Israeli artillery, or possibly a hellfire missile fired by an IAF attack helicopter, killed a Reuters journalist in South Lebanon and heavily injured three other journalists belonging to Al-Jazeera.

– The IDF announced that it carried out drone strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

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